The 2007 DITA Europe conference will be in Brussels, Belgium. I've attended the past two DITA Europe conferences in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, and they have been very informative conferences, offering excellent value for money. Brussels is a lovely old city with amazing architecture and delightful restaurants*, and it will be an exciting venue for the DITA Europe conference in November 2007.

DITA offers a very cost-efficient route for technical translation, and if you have manuals and help systems that you translate into various languages then DITA can offer significant cost savings. Personally, I find DITA sufficiently exciting that I am happy to give up a few hours each month to work on the DITA Translation Subcommittee, which aims to ensure that as DITA developes and evolves, it continues to be a highly effective format for technical translation.


* I'm currently trying to work out a way to incorporate a trip to my favourite restaurant in Brussels, the wonderfully named Madam Olsen, which is half antique shop, half north African restaurant. And which is under 500 metres from the where the conference is being held.... but is sadly normally closed Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.